Klarinet Archive - Posting 000435.txt from 1995/03

From: Timothy Tikker <tjt@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Smelling salts
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:03:26 -0500

On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, Thomas Labadorf wrote:

> What a sad state of affairs when a highly musical moment can be reduced to
> something as non-descript as "louder" or "softer!" What Andre Previn was
> probably thinking at that moment was, "Is it worth spending thousands of
> dollars per minute of rehearsal time to banter with this imbecile!" His
> answer was obviously. "No."

Actually, I sensed from Previn's tone that his reaction was more "yes,
you're right - a more specific, less nebulous request would be more
helpful, wouldn't it?!"